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Offers to help develop courage, confidence, and character through a variety of engaging, challenging, and fun activities.

Provides a summer camp for youth individuals. Site locations are selected based on community need, partnerships, and safe spaces. Activities will include arts and crafts, sports, field trips, STEM programs, nature-based programs, swim lessons, and more. Lunch and snacks will be provided.

GRASP card offers discounts to low-income families (up to 50% off). Apply by calling IMPACT Community Action Partnership, (515) 518-4770.

Offers traditional speech and language therapy, social communication groups, augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) services, pediatric feeding and swallowing services, parent training programs to teach caregivers to support speech, language and communication development in the home.

Offers FIP (Family Investment Program) a cash assistance program for children and their families who have low income, also available to relatives caring for children whose parents are not in the home. The goal of FIP is to help families leave poverty and become self supporting, can participate for up to 60 months. FIP is Iowa's Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program.

Congregate and home delivered meals are served in Polk and Shelby on weekdays. Home delivered meals are distribed in Osceola on weekdays and Stromsburg every day of the week.

Centers have holiday and special meals as well as potluck meals once per month. Exercise and nutrition programs are available as well as free blood pressure checks by Polk County Health Department. Pool and pitch tournaments take place monthly.

Polk County and Aging Partners in Lincoln help to provide Information and Referral services.

Maintains county parks and recreation areas and provides hunter safety classes, camping, fishing and boating information. Outdoor recreational opportunities are available through county parks and outdoor wildlife areas.

Offers a program that helps you to save time and money through planning your meals and shopping strategies. Programming and materials may also be available online. 

Provides rent, rent deposit, and utility assistance for people who are in a homeless situation. Case management services are also available as part of this program.

Homeless Case Manager Counties and Contact Information:

Lyn Carlen - Housing Coordinator 217-923-3113 ext. 274, cell 217-208-9175

Courtney Arnold - Cumberland and Edgar County Case Manager 217-921-5505 ext. 276, cell 217-549-115

Alexa Nunez - Coles County Case Manger 217-961-0831 ext. 405, cell 217-549-1081

Honey Arnold - Coles and Douglas County Case Manager 217-961-0831 ext. 602, cell 217-549-2463

Greg Ridenhour - Coles County Case Manager 217-500-3120 ext. 585, cell 217-549-4122

Romana Rodriquez - Crawford, Lawrence, and Richland Counties Case Manager 618-395-5505 ext. 264, cell 217-508-8070

Mobile crisis response provides immediate services when law enforcement, area shelters, and referrals from The Nebraska Family Helpline are confronted with someone experiencing a mental health crisis. Therapists help resolve an immediate behavioral health crisis to avoid emergency protective custody holds, avoid inpatient psychiatric hospitalization, and link individuals to community services.

Post-crisis services include a 90-day stabilization program offered in partnership with other agencies.

Peer Support Specialists available to those referred through Omaha Police Department officers who encounter individuals in crisis.

Provides help with infant and toddler needs, including, diapers (up to 100 per month), wipes, baby food, baby formula (supplemental, but not the primary source such as WIC), baby hygiene products.

Provides placement and casework services for children who have been removed from their birth families because of abuse or neglect. Provides training, licensing, and services for foster families.

Offers to help children in grades 4-12 develop knowledge and skills. Services include learning about citizenship, leadership, cooking, arts and crafts, mechanics and technology, horticulture, agriculture, and other subjects. To teach young people about these subjects, the 4-H program uses the learn-by-doing method of instruction.

Offers comprehensive cancer care services, including:

- Access to clinical trials.

- Radiation therapy.

- Hematology.

- Chemotherapy.

- Immunotherapy.

- Surgical oncology.

Advanced treatment options include:

- Radiation therapy.

- Optical surface monitoring system.

Cancer diagnostic services include:

- 3D digital mammography.

- Biopsy and image-guided biopsy.

- Bronchoscopy.

- CAT scan, PET scan, MRI, Ultrasound.

- Colonoscopy.

- Upper endoscopy.

- Fluoroscopy.

- Laryngoscopy.

- X-rays.

Supportive services include:

- Breast health clinic.

- Financial navigators.

- Nutrition counseling.

- Rehabilitation.

- Support groups.

- Survivorship programs.

Provides counseling services to anyone experiencing psychological, emotional, and/or social difficulties and impaired functioning in handling life's changes. Individual, family or group counseling sessions provide a supportive environment to manage life's challenges.

Provides various programs to assist low-income individuals and families take care of their basic needs. Can also supply information and referrals to local resources in the community.

Offers Homemaker Services including bathing and hair care, assistance with getting in and out of the bathtub or shower, assistance with laundry, light housework to include dusting, vacuuming, cleaning of bathrooms and kitchen, and light meal preparation.

Prosecutes all felony, misdemeanor and traffic crimes within the county, assists those petitioning for Orders of Protection, and goes to court to collect unpaid child support.

Provides the maintenance and minor repair on the city's storm water system and sanitary sewer system . Also provides garbage collection once a week and recycling and yard waste pick up twice a month. Yard waste is available from spring to fall only. 

Offers developmental screenings in all areas of development and specialized treatment for infants and young children. Also offers relationship-based treatment with the parent/caretaker and child.